Description

Measurement of the Child Like Age of Adultswith Dementia

Persons with dementia regresses. In addition to loss of memory,motor, language and thinking skills they exhibit child likebehavior.

If we can measure the adult child age, we can constructappropriate activities. The also gives us a hint as to time left.Five year olds go to kindergarten, and play with other kids theirown age.

Often they live completely in the NOW. like in Buddhism beingone with the environment. But, living in fear with sense ofparanoia without awareness of time or location and everything isunfamiliar, even though they have been there many times before.They can't read, write or do arithmetic or even carry on anintelligent conversation. For a 2 year old we want to hug cuddlethem and have stupid disconnected conversations. A 4 year will berebellious want to assert independence. The child age gives a clueas to how to related them as we send them off into the sunset oflive.

Note: In the case of Alzheimer's, as the brain becomes filledwith plaque bodily functions decline. We also see this in cancerpatients with Glioma brain tumors having a similar effect.